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TEXAS COLLECTIONH. BAILEY CARROLLA STATEMENT OF POLICY ON TEXAS STATE HISTORICALASSOCIATION GRANTS-IN-AID FROM ROCKEFELLERFOUNDATION FUNDSThe Committee of the Association which is handling theGrants-in-aid from the Rockefeller funds has determined uponthe following general regulations as a guide in the makingof grants. Also included herein are statements which will beof value to those who contemplate making application for agrant.1. This grant to the Association is a part of a generalprogram being carried on by the Rockefeller Foundation forthe encouragement of study on the Great Plains. This grantgrew out of Conferences on the Great Plains held in New YorkCity and at Lincoln, Nebraska. Other organizations havecharge of grants in the Northern Plains, while the Texas StateHistorical Association is charged with administrative super-vision in the Great Plains area of Texas and in the Southwest.2. These funds are not to be used to initiate any study. Tobe given consideration a project should be at least half finished.Work in more advanced stages will be given additional con-sideration. This grant was made to the Association with theunderstanding that it would be used mainly to give free timefrom ordinary duties to those who needed small additional aidsin order to get a manuscript into final form for publication.3. Priority will be given to studies dealing with the Plainsaspect of Texas History and next to Plains studies in theSouthwest.4. Next, priority will be given to studies dealing with themodern period of Texas History.5. According to the terms of the grant to the Association,aid is to be given the Junior Historian work of the Association.6. An applicant should make a clear statement of what heproposes to do, the contribution to knowledge involved, the time[ 162 ]